New Research
Revitalizing Debate on the Global Arms Trade:
Invigorating debate on the Arms Trade through policy, research, and activism.
New research, publications, workshops and events.
Examining arms manufacturing and trade and domestic and international levels.
The opportunity cost of the arms trade between North America, Europe and the MENA region
Congratulations
Congratulations to WPF's Executive Director, Alex de Waal on receiving the 2023 Royal Anthropological Institute’s Huxley Award! Read more about the award on our blog.
In the News
THE GUARDIAN | March 21, 2024
Alex de Waal in The Guardian: We are about to witness in Gaza the most intense famine since the second world war.
NEW YORK TIMES | March 9, 2024
I Said the Era of Famines Might Be Ending. I Was Wrong.
Nearly eight years ago I wrote an essay for New York Times Opinion asking whether the world had finally moved beyond the peril of large-scale famines. My answer was that it might very well have. I was wrong.
THE GUARDIAN | January 31, 2024
Unless Israel changes course, it could be legally culpable for mass starvation
Gaza is on the brink of famine. If the US and UK fail to use every possible lever to stop the catastrophe, they will be complicit.
BBC | January 23, 2024
Ethiopia starvation: Fear of famine in Tigray grows
Famine is stalking parts of Ethiopia. The epicentre is in the northern Tigray region.
WPF Blog: Reinventing Peace
- Learning for Peace Primer March 25, 2024In school they taught me about war. About armed conflicts, structural violence and weapons of mass destruction. Peace, on the other hand, was simply something existing between wars, a taken-for-granted condition occurring in the absence of direct, large-scale armed or interstate violence. Omitted from my Swedish schoolbooks and classroom discussions were the resistance and alternative […]Nico Edwards
- Can we Compare Famines? Gaza, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tigray, Yemen March 22, 2024The purpose of the Integrated food security Phase Classification (IPC) and FEWS NET is to provide real time warnings. They have done their job in Gaza and many other places. As I wrote in my recent piece in the Guardian, we should not have to wait to count the graves of children [...] The post […]Alex DeWaal